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TIL that Venezuela is the top winner in the Big Four beauty pageants: Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International, and Miss Earth, and was the second country after Brazil to win all four.

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kOxn5 TIL when the Unknown Warrior was laid to rest 'among the kings' in Westminster Abbey, the guests of honor were a group of about one hundred women. They had been chosen because they had each lost their husband and all their sons in the war.
VJa8 TIL there are no narwhals kept in captivity. All attempts to do so have been unsuccessful
Wk66X TIL that there is a Jewish myth about a giant lion called Tigris. The lion had a head 21 feet (9 cubits) wide. In the myth, Tigris roared, women within 2200 kilometers miscarried and a city was destroyed. Tigris roared a second time and the teeth of the men looking for Tigris fell out
kJBlm TIL the origin of The Windsor Hum - a mysterious low-frequency hum that plagued the city of Windsor for years, turned out to be caused by a U.S. Steel facility from across the river.
6YOJ TIL scientists have dosed naked mole rats with carcinogens and radiation, yet they have never been observed to develop cancer. They tolerate acid, live 6x longer than other rodents, they hardly age, they survive long periods of oxygen deprivation and can live in heavy metal polluted areas.